Clair Huffaker

Clair Huffaker (September 26, 1926 – April 3, 1990) was a U.S. screenwriter and author of westerns and other fiction, many of which were turned into films. He served in the United States Navy in World War II and then studied in Europe before returning to America.

Novels

• Badge for a Gunfighter (1957)
• Rider from Thunder Mountain (1957)
• Cowboy (1958) Novelization of Screenplay
• Flaming Lance (1958)
• Posse from Hell (1958)
• Guns of Rio Conchos (1958)
• Badman (aka The War Wagon after the Movie) (1958)
• Seven Ways from Sundown (1959)
• Good Lord, You're Upside Down! (1963)
• Nobody Loves a Drunken Indian (1967)
• The Cowboy and the Cossack (1973)
• One Time I Saw Morning Come Home (1974)
• Clair Huffaker's Profiles of the American West (1976)

Screenplays

• Seven Ways from Sundown (1960)
• Flaming Star (1960)
• Posse from Hell (1961)
• The Comancheros (1961)
• The Second Time Around (1961) as Cecil Dan Hansen
• Rio Conchos (1964)
• Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966)
• The War Wagon (1967)
• Hellfighters (1968)
• 100 Rifles (1969)
• Flap (1970)
• The Deserter (1971) from a story by himself
• Chino (1973) with others

Clair Huffaker also wrote scripts for television and was one of the writers on the Warner Brothers Western series Lawman.